XSS in Spicethemes Carousel, Recent Post Slider And Banner
CVE-2023-5362
The Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'spice_post_slider' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (41.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 41.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: -0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dd70b9-6f8a-41fc-ab4f-f6cdf… (Third Party Advisory)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/1.9/include/view/shor… (Exploit)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spice-post-slider (Patch)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/2.0.1/include/view/sh… (Exploit)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-5362?
- CVE-2023-5362 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spicethemes Carousel, Recent Post Slider And Banner, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-10-30.
- How severe is CVE-2023-5362?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-5362 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.